bluchez

Since the only decent archive of derby entries by artist was shutting down, I decided to go ahead and add an artist archive to shirt.what?.

As always with shirt.what?, I tried to make the site present as much relevant information as possible in a simple interface. There is an alphabetized list of all entrants sized by number of derby entries. There is a search form providing easy access to all artist pages available. Individual artist pages provide a nice look at all previous derby entries sorted in reverse order (most recent first), as well as provide some overall statistics for their previous derby entries. Check it out and let me know what you think.

In order to properly setup the site, a database containing all previous (and current) derby entries had to be created. This has allowed for virtually unlimited flexibility in the data available to be presented. Individual derbies, date ranges, derby vote totals, votes relative to derby averages, etc, may be generated from the data with some relatively simple sql and php. So, I guess this means I need ideas for what you guys would like to see added based on artist or other info. If I ignore your suggestion, please know that it is entirely personal and it has nothing to do with workload or other life reasons. I will unlikely do work to help you prove your point, so positive uses for the data are much more likely to be considered.

no1

bluchez wrote:So, I guess this means I need ideas for what you guys would like to see added based on artist or other info. If I ignore your suggestion, please know that it is entirely personal and it has nothing to do with workload or other life reasons. I will unlikely do work to help you prove your point, so positive uses for the data are much more likely to be considered.

Have fun!

how about removed entries? cwarringtons's site had at least some of them; perhaps you could merge some of his data into your own db, and track them automagically going forward?

rglee129

bluchez

Rejection reasons have been added, thanks for the suggestion. That was some very humorous data to watch roll in. I'll have to come up with a neat way to present them by themselves one day. 3,204 unique rejection reasons for 5,236 rejections.

Removal of entries is a bigger issue, but trust me, it's on my mind. Unfortunately, it takes quite a lot of work for not much information, so we'll have to see how it goes.

BootsBoots

clarinerd

Whoa! This is totally otterific! I was just thinking the other day how great it would be if this were added. And now it has been! I feel like someone from a Microsoft commercial: "Hello, my name is Steve, and shirt.what was my idea"

bassanimation

My favorite part about this is getting to look at how people's art has changed over time. It's really neat to see how some of my favorite artists have progressed, seeing what they learned, how they incorporated new ideas into their designs. I am so inspired j_j.

I could spend hours on this if left to my own devices... I would probably also just be in my underwear a lot if left to my own devices...

ressamac

tjost

Hey Woot, just a suggestion, but I think that you should seriously think about bringing Bluchez onboard your staff. He's done a great job of sorting the mess that is otherwise know as the woot art achives. Great job on this. I'm sad shirt derby stats is dissapearing but this makes the art a lot more concise and easy to browse based on artist.

Edit - I did just notice though that you don't track dailies it seems associated with individual artist on thier pages. Maybe in the future?

zosai

Could you add a summary page, in top 10 format perhaps, of the most number of derby wins, percentage of wins relative to entries, number of entries until first win, number of rejections, longest continuous streak of entries, etc? Other categories could be used, but just a snapshot of the overall artist community.

And second, could you change the color of the font of artists' names based on the date of their most recent entry? Perhaps the scheme could be red for most recent entry in most recent derby, orange for within last month, yellow for within 3(6?) months, black for longer than 3(6?) months. This way we could get a visual sense of the activity or inactivity of the list of artists. This could also be applied to most recent derby wins, too, in some way.

Those are my thoughts, but take it or leave it, your site is awwwesome, and I really appreciate what you're doing there.

You could also add a PayPal donate button if Woot doesn't put you on staff...

bluchez

Added all of the info to highlight derby prints. Since there are so many, and so many shirts that have printed in total, I could have easily missed one or mislabeled one. Please let me know if you find anything.

geekfactor12

bluchez wrote:Added all of the info to highlight derby prints. Since there are so many, and so many shirts that have printed in total, I could have easily missed one or mislabeled one. Please let me know if you find anything.

HalfWheat

bluchez wrote:Added all of the info to highlight derby prints. Since there are so many, and so many shirts that have printed in total, I could have easily missed one or mislabeled one. Please let me know if you find anything.

no1

in your artist archive, inglekott, the winner of the first derby, has a 20% derby print percentage rate (1 print from 5 total entries) but isn't listed in the "best print record" list. is there a minimum number of prints to qualify?

bluchez

no1 wrote:in your artist archive, inglekott, the winner of the first derby, has a 20% derby print percentage rate (1 print from 5 total entries) but isn't listed in the "best print record" list. is there a minimum number of prints to qualify?

I felt a 20 entry minimum was appropriate for best record and average votes. Without it, the lists are full of collab accounts and people with very few entries.

This would be an unfiltered best record, which wasn't very interesting to me.

Darquis

The "Most Average Votes" stat seems like it should raise a few eyebrows...

Not to me it doesn't - certain people always do well in the derby (maybe because they submit things they know will get votes) and others sometimes don't do so well (they submit "risky" entries because they thought they'd be cool)

Although things are gonna get skewed cuz Drakxxx submits collabs with Crescent Debris under his name and then each also submits entries individually

geekfactor12

Darquis wrote:Not to me it doesn't - certain people always do well in the derby (maybe because they submit things they know will get votes) and others sometimes don't do so well (they submit "risky" entries because they thought they'd be cool)

I'm not saying it's definitive proof of anything, just that it's unusual.

Essentially, the stats are saying that even among the most popular artists, Ramy and Seki routinely score 20% more votes than the nearest competition. 20% is huge.

What's additionally interesting is that they score virtually identically, with only 4 votes separating their averages (which puts them within 0.6% of each other).

That's pretty uncanny, and is definitely an extreme outlier from the rest of the stats. While, of course, being by itself no particular proof of anything.

Josephus

I'd like to see a stat of most winners of doubletake derbies or even percentage wins of doubletake derbies; i.e., wins per doubletake entry. might be a better indication of 'respectedness' of artists, but interesting in its own right.

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